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I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.

Amelia Earhart

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Amelia Earhart
Age: 39 †
Born: 1897
Born: July 24
Died: 1937
Died: July 2
Aircraft Pilot
Aviator
Journalist
Memoirist
Travel Writer
Writer
Atchison County
Missouri
Amelia Mary Earhart
Lady Lindy
Amelia Earhart Putnam
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Beauty
Gulping
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Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.
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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act!
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In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
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It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.
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the stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many. i always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but i was sure of it that night.
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How can Life grant us boon of living, compensateFor dull grey ugliness and pregnant hateUnless we dareThe soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we payWith courage to behold the resistless day,And count it fair.
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Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.
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The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the restless day, And count it fair.
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You can do anything you decide to do.
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The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.
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If enough of us keep trying, we'll get someplace.
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
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Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.
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I did for the fun of it
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My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes.
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In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful break was apt to lurk just around the corner.
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